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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 1 | Tuesday January 11, 2011
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
9· Lifestyle
15 · Sudoku
20 · Classifieds
24 · Sports
Feeling Blue: Ryan Gosling
and Michelle Williams star in
a less-than-perfect love story
PAGE 12
Three-peat: Men’s Water Polo
notches its’ third straight NCAA title
PAGE 24
By Suji Pyun
Daily Trojan
Beginning next fall semester,
classes will no longer be held the
Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
In a survey conducted by
the Undergraduate Student
Government last year, 93.2 per-cent
of students interviewed said
they supported having an ex-tra
day for Thanksgiving break.
USG had been lobbying for this
additional day for more than two
years, according to Maya Babla,
USG chief of staff.
The number of class days dur-ing
the fall semester will now be
shortened from 72 to 71 instruc-tional
days, and the university
will not hold another day of class-es
to make up for it.
“With the extra day, students
will have more freedom to trav-el
for Thanksgiving, particularly
the out-of-state students,” said
Kenneth Servis, dean of Academic
Records and Registrar. “I do not
think that there will be severe con-sequences
for extending the break.”
USG President Chris Cheng
said adding an extra day to
Thanksgiving break has been a
top priority for USG.
“USG is extremely excited about
this development. It is something
we’ve been working very hard on
and it is motivating to see such a
great result,” Cheng said.
Kara Ludke, a freshman from
Michigan majoring in theatre,
said the extra day is beneficial for
out-of-state students like her who
have to spend more time traveling
for the holidays.
“Having classes that day just
wasn’t fair for out-of-state stu-dents,
because if they went to
class like they were supposed to,
they would most likely spend all
Thursday, the actual holiday of
Thanksgiving, traveling,” she said.
Some students, though, said the
extra day will not make a difference.
“That means we still don’t have
a full break,” said Charlotte Chan,
a junior majoring in environ-mental
engineering. “Now I will
just want to skip both Monday
and Tuesday and be home for the
whole week.”
Cheng said the decision ul-timately
came from the
Academic Calendar Committee’s
Additional day for Thanksgiving break added as a result of
feedback from students in a survey conducted by USG last year.
| see break, page 13 |
By Jared Servantez
Daily Trojan
USC is currently involved in negotiations
to buy state-owned property in Exposition
Park, which includes the land under the Los
Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Sports
Arena and five surrounding parking lots.
The Coliseum and Sports Arena are
currently jointly owned by the state of
California, Los Angeles County and the City
of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Memorial
Coliseum Commission, which has board
members from each of the three ownership
interests, manages the facilities according
to a lease with the state.
The state approached USC with a pro-posal
for a sale and talks began in early
December, with the state initially offering
to sell the property it has owned since 1921
for $54 million.
California’s current budget problems
provided the impetus for the governor’s of-fice
to contact the university with the pro-posed
sale, said Kristina Raspe, the univer-sity’s
associate senior vice president of real
estate and asset management.
“We’re proposing to buy the land from
the state of California, and we would buy
the land subject to the existing leases,”
Raspe said. “The Coliseum Commission has
a lease that goes through 2054, so nothing
would change with regard to the operation
of the Coliseum on a day-to-day basis.”
Raspe said she expected a deal to be
reached by the end of December, but the ne-gotiation
process was extended when the
Board of Directors for Exposition Park and
the California Science Center decided on
Dec. 22 to continue studying all aspects of
the offer before approving the sale.
Los Angeles City Council members
Bernard Parks, Jan Perry and Ed Reyes had
USC in talks to buy Coliseum from the state
California budget problems pushes
$54 million price tag on historic
sports arena.
| see coliseum, page 15 |
By Lily Conover
Daily Trojan
Shortly after 11 a.m. Monday morning, a 58-year-old
male suspect dressed as a deliveryman entered Alpha
Rho Chi fraternity through an unlocked window and
stole a fraternity member’s laptop while she was in the
shower.
Department of Public Safety Capt. David Carlisle said
a member of the co-ed fraternity called DPS as soon as
she noticed her computer was missing, which allowed
DPS officers to come to the scene quickly.
“One of our officers responded and happened to get
there as the burglar was coming out the front door,”
Carlisle said.
When the officer tried to detain the suspect, he ran
a short distance before mounting a bicycle. After set-ting
up a perimeter around the neighborhood officers
from both DPS and the Los Angeles Police Department
surrounded and caught the suspect near the AAA
Automobile Club on Figueroa.
After being identified by the victim, the suspect was
arrested and booked at LAPD. The suspect, who had
previously been arrested for other burglaries, had bro-ken
his parole, Carlisle said.
“We are very glad he is caught,” Carlisle said. “He is a
parolee at large, so he was wanted.”
Carlisle said this burglary might have been difficult
to prevent, particularly in such a large residence.
“Usually, most burglaries won’t go in a residence if
they think someone is home,” he said. “They will usually
Parolee breaks
into Alpha
Rho Chi house
Suspect steals fraternity member’s laptop and then
speeds away on bike before being arrested by DPS.
| see Burglary, page 13 |
Thanksgiving
break to include
Wednesday
Daily Trojan file photo
Selling game · Spectators fill the Coliseum on game day. USC is in the process of buying the Coliseum from the state. The
property has been owned by the state since 1921 and the Coliseum Commission has a lease that extends to 2054.
Daniel Wang | Daily Trojan
Season of plenty · Students serve themselves at the Thanksgiving Dinner held by President Nikias. The
Thanksgiving holiday for USC students has been extended to include the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 1 | Tuesday January 11, 2011
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
9· Lifestyle
15 · Sudoku
20 · Classifieds
24 · Sports
Feeling Blue: Ryan Gosling
and Michelle Williams star in
a less-than-perfect love story
PAGE 12
Three-peat: Men’s Water Polo
notches its’ third straight NCAA title
PAGE 24
By Suji Pyun
Daily Trojan
Beginning next fall semester,
classes will no longer be held the
Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
In a survey conducted by
the Undergraduate Student
Government last year, 93.2 per-cent
of students interviewed said
they supported having an ex-tra
day for Thanksgiving break.
USG had been lobbying for this
additional day for more than two
years, according to Maya Babla,
USG chief of staff.
The number of class days dur-ing
the fall semester will now be
shortened from 72 to 71 instruc-tional
days, and the university
will not hold another day of class-es
to make up for it.
“With the extra day, students
will have more freedom to trav-el
for Thanksgiving, particularly
the out-of-state students,” said
Kenneth Servis, dean of Academic
Records and Registrar. “I do not
think that there will be severe con-sequences
for extending the break.”
USG President Chris Cheng
said adding an extra day to
Thanksgiving break has been a
top priority for USG.
“USG is extremely excited about
this development. It is something
we’ve been working very hard on
and it is motivating to see such a
great result,” Cheng said.
Kara Ludke, a freshman from
Michigan majoring in theatre,
said the extra day is beneficial for
out-of-state students like her who
have to spend more time traveling
for the holidays.
“Having classes that day just
wasn’t fair for out-of-state stu-dents,
because if they went to
class like they were supposed to,
they would most likely spend all
Thursday, the actual holiday of
Thanksgiving, traveling,” she said.
Some students, though, said the
extra day will not make a difference.
“That means we still don’t have
a full break,” said Charlotte Chan,
a junior majoring in environ-mental
engineering. “Now I will
just want to skip both Monday
and Tuesday and be home for the
whole week.”
Cheng said the decision ul-timately
came from the
Academic Calendar Committee’s
Additional day for Thanksgiving break added as a result of
feedback from students in a survey conducted by USG last year.
| see break, page 13 |
By Jared Servantez
Daily Trojan
USC is currently involved in negotiations
to buy state-owned property in Exposition
Park, which includes the land under the Los
Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Sports
Arena and five surrounding parking lots.
The Coliseum and Sports Arena are
currently jointly owned by the state of
California, Los Angeles County and the City
of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Memorial
Coliseum Commission, which has board
members from each of the three ownership
interests, manages the facilities according
to a lease with the state.
The state approached USC with a pro-posal
for a sale and talks began in early
December, with the state initially offering
to sell the property it has owned since 1921
for $54 million.
California’s current budget problems
provided the impetus for the governor’s of-fice
to contact the university with the pro-posed
sale, said Kristina Raspe, the univer-sity’s
associate senior vice president of real
estate and asset management.
“We’re proposing to buy the land from
the state of California, and we would buy
the land subject to the existing leases,”
Raspe said. “The Coliseum Commission has
a lease that goes through 2054, so nothing
would change with regard to the operation
of the Coliseum on a day-to-day basis.”
Raspe said she expected a deal to be
reached by the end of December, but the ne-gotiation
process was extended when the
Board of Directors for Exposition Park and
the California Science Center decided on
Dec. 22 to continue studying all aspects of
the offer before approving the sale.
Los Angeles City Council members
Bernard Parks, Jan Perry and Ed Reyes had
USC in talks to buy Coliseum from the state
California budget problems pushes
$54 million price tag on historic
sports arena.
| see coliseum, page 15 |
By Lily Conover
Daily Trojan
Shortly after 11 a.m. Monday morning, a 58-year-old
male suspect dressed as a deliveryman entered Alpha
Rho Chi fraternity through an unlocked window and
stole a fraternity member’s laptop while she was in the
shower.
Department of Public Safety Capt. David Carlisle said
a member of the co-ed fraternity called DPS as soon as
she noticed her computer was missing, which allowed
DPS officers to come to the scene quickly.
“One of our officers responded and happened to get
there as the burglar was coming out the front door,”
Carlisle said.
When the officer tried to detain the suspect, he ran
a short distance before mounting a bicycle. After set-ting
up a perimeter around the neighborhood officers
from both DPS and the Los Angeles Police Department
surrounded and caught the suspect near the AAA
Automobile Club on Figueroa.
After being identified by the victim, the suspect was
arrested and booked at LAPD. The suspect, who had
previously been arrested for other burglaries, had bro-ken
his parole, Carlisle said.
“We are very glad he is caught,” Carlisle said. “He is a
parolee at large, so he was wanted.”
Carlisle said this burglary might have been difficult
to prevent, particularly in such a large residence.
“Usually, most burglaries won’t go in a residence if
they think someone is home,” he said. “They will usually
Parolee breaks
into Alpha
Rho Chi house
Suspect steals fraternity member’s laptop and then
speeds away on bike before being arrested by DPS.
| see Burglary, page 13 |
Thanksgiving
break to include
Wednesday
Daily Trojan file photo
Selling game · Spectators fill the Coliseum on game day. USC is in the process of buying the Coliseum from the state. The
property has been owned by the state since 1921 and the Coliseum Commission has a lease that extends to 2054.
Daniel Wang | Daily Trojan
Season of plenty · Students serve themselves at the Thanksgiving Dinner held by President Nikias. The
Thanksgiving holiday for USC students has been extended to include the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.